When I volunteered to do this review I quickly realized that I was asked to review 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server' and not just 'Red Hat Linux'. Then panic set in. How different was this going to be from regular old Red Hat that I've used and relied on for years? Is this going to be a whole new Red Hat with a whole bunch of advanced features that I wouldn't be able to talk about either because I missed them or because I'm not qualified?

Like many others I bought in to the RHAS 2.1, I was tasked with bringing up an oracle ias instance. The redhat install was flawless... yet I was able to get as far in the oracle install with 7.2, 9 ( with some relinking ) and gentoo. Oracle imho is not ready for linux... I feel as if RHAS is target to take out Sun, which I think will happen some time, but oracle is not ready for the penguin...